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eryone can join the Peace Corps, but they might share a week or two of vacation time.” Nine months after Hurricane Katrina, Rebuilding Together was looking for unskilled labor to help in New Orleans. So he helped prep homes for incoming electri- cians, plumbers and carpenters, and then painted. He was hooked, and has subsequently volunteered in China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Kenya and the West Bank. His award-winning book, The Voluntourist, details his experiences. Megan Wieder, a high school senior in Titusville, Penn-
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funeral, I heard people say how he’d changed their lives. So in midlife, I decided to change mine.”
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sylvania, mulched trails and painted park equipment and homes during her week in New Orleans as a volunteer for People to People, which hosts future leaders for such proj- ects. “I learned I can help others,” she says. This October, the Sierra Club’s New Jersey Seashore Ser- vice will assist the Natural Resource Education Foundation of New Jersey with its forest, marsh and meadowlands conserva- tion efforts. The project will simultaneously allow participants to observe the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy along the shore- line, as well as in nearby communities.
Infrastructure Improvements The Sierra Club’s August trip to Mt. Rainier, in Washington, will train volunteers to work with the National Park Service in repairing hiking trails and building restraining walls at an elevation of 6,600 feet. Stunning views grace the two-mile hike from the Sunrise Visitor Center. Volunteer organizer DiDi Toaspern observes, “We are doing work that wouldn’t get done otherwise due to budget restraints. Even removing
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